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Vishesh Jawarani:

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Jahnavi Dangeti:

Charting India’s Path to Space

Palak Sehgal:

Crossing Borders in Business

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Santhosh Ram Mavuri:

Winning Awards Worldwide for a Film on India’s Weavers

Dr. Kavitha Das:

Advancing Health and Longevity in the U.S.

Vishesh Jawarani:

Fusing Japanese Izakaya with Goan Susegad

Jahnavi Dangeti:

Charting India’s Path to Space

Palak Sehgal:

Crossing Borders in Business

How Going Abroad Can Transform Your Life |

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Global Indian | Good Reads

 Top reads curated from the internet 

#1UPI
Travelling to Japan? Indian tourists will soon be able to pay via UPI — Here’s what we know
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#2Immigration
Immigration and the politics of fear
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#3
Rajesh Nambiar remains confident as AI, Trump test India’s tech sector
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#4Gandhi-card-img
What Gandhi learned about vegetarianism in a London restaurant
#5The Biden administration’s National Artificial Intelligence Initiative office prioritizes working with US allies and partners.
AI is becoming the ‘magic fix’ as America places ‘one big bet’ on it not being a bubble, market veteran warns
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#6Australian anthropolist couple Christopher and Elizabeth
An enduring legacy of empowerment and change
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Indian immigrants Japan dilemma

Travelling to Japan? Indian tourists will soon be able to pay via UPI — Here’s what we know

The article first appeared in Mint on October 19, 2025.

Indian tourists who are planning to visit Japan will soon be able to make digital payments in the foreign country using their Unified Payments Interface (UPI) systems, as the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has signed an MoU with NTT DATA, a digital business and technology services firm. NPCI's subsidiary, NPCI International Payments Ltd., signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NTT DATA's Japanese counterpart on 7 October 2025, as the initiative aims to facilitate merchant transactions nationwide.
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Immigration

Immigration and the politics of fear

The article first appeared in The Hindu on October 23, 2025.

At the UN General Assembly last month, U.S. President Donald Trump harangued European leaders saying, “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders... Your countries are going to hell.” It was an explicit export of his anti-immigrant ideas to the continent that his Scottish mother had departed as an immigrant to the U.S.
Immigration has long been a fraught subject in the U.K., with waves of anti-immigrant sentiment fanned by the far right, be it Enoch Powell’s incendiary ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of 1968, the National Front’s activism of the 1970s, or the ‘Take Back Control’ rhetoric of the Brexit debates of the mid 2010s. However, Mr. Trump’s speech marks a turning point: conversations about immigration have gone from decrying illegal or irregular immigration to denouncing legal migration. The focus has shifted from a state’s ability to absorb immigrants to nativist concerns about culture and heritage, dressed up as ‘integration’...
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Rajesh Nambiar

Rajesh Nambiar remains confident as AI, Trump test India’s tech sector

The article first appeared in Business Standard on October 21, 2025.

Iti s a busy afternoonat the Trident’s 022 restaurant in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex. The steady clink of cutlery and the muted hum of business lunches form the backdrop as Rajesh Nambiar slides into a corner table. The choice of venue is pure convenience: Nambiar, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), which represents India’s tech industry, has a meeting with the Maharashtra chief minister. I, too, am here after an appointment in the neighbourhood...
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Gandhi-banner-img

What Gandhi learned about vegetarianism in a London restaurant

The article first appeared in The Economic Times on October 19, 2025.

A London site once housed the Central Vegetarian Restaurant. Mohandas Gandhi frequented this eatery while studying law. The restaurant provided him with a diverse diet and companionship. This was vital for his personal growth during his time in London. The building is now gone, replaced by construction. St Bride’s Street in London is now a construction site. A huge foundation is being dug, possibly for a new corporate headquarters, similar to those of Deloitte and Goldman Sachs nearby. But any trace of the restaurant at 16 St Bride’s Street, which played such a key role in India’s history, has long vanished...
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Indian AI Model

AI is becoming the ‘magic fix’ as America places ‘one big bet’ on it not being a bubble, market veteran warns

The article first appeared on Fortune on October 6, 2025.

A lot is riding on the AI boom, and it isn’t just the stock market surge. AI is being touted as an elixir for a number of serious economic challenges, according to Ruchir Sharma, chair of Rockefeller International.

In Financial Times column on Sunday, the market veteran pointed out that the “immigration boom-bust cycle” that the U.S. is experiencing now is unprecedented in scale, swinging from a net gain of more than 3 million in 2023 to an expected trickle of just 400,000 this year. The drastic throttling in the labor force could slash U.S. growth potential by more than 20%. “Yet increasingly the response to this risk, too, is a shrug. AI is going to make human labor less necessary anyway,” Sharma quipped...
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Australian anthropolist couple Christopher and Elizabeth

An enduring legacy of empowerment and change

The article first appeared on the Hindu on January 10, 2025.

An Austrian anthropologist couple’s deep bond with the Adivasis of a remote tribal village of Telangana, and their groundbreaking work in anthropology catalysed transformative changes, from literacy programmes to land rights advocacy. Their immersive work not only preserved the Raj Gond community’s heritage but also sparked progress that continues to uplift future generations...

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Global Indian | World in Numbers

Statistically speaking

$50 Billion

The amount that Microsoft plans to invest by 2030 to expand AI infrastructure, cloud capacity and skills across Global South including India.

33 Percent

Higher data input from India into ChatGPT compared to the United States, making the country one of the platform’s largest data contributors, says ex-NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

$118 Billion

The value of the global import market for textiles and apparel that opened up under the India–US Trade Agreement, which the Indian government says will significantly boost India’s textile exports.

25 Percent

Trump lowers tariffs on Indian imports, citing India’s commitments to stop buying Russian oil and to deepen security and economic ties with the United States.

18 Percent

The new tariff rate on Indian exports was confirmed as India and the US announced a long-awaited trade agreement, with President Donald Trump lowering reciprocal duties pointing to a wider economic pact with PM Narendra Modi.

4 Desi treats

Feature in TasteAtlas’s 2026 list of the world’s top 50 potato dishes. Indian potato classics Vada Pav, Aloo Gobi, Batata Vada and Aloo Tikki have made the cut.

Global Indian | Did You Know? 

Fun facts about India and Global Indians

Zohran Mamdani wins the closely-watched mayoral election in New York City. He is the youngest, the first Indian-American, and the first Muslim elected as the Mayor of New York City, the world’s financial capital. 

Canada’s Province of British Columbia proclaimed November as Hindu Heritage Month, recognizing the long-standing presence and contributions of Hindu communities to the province’s social, cultural, and economic life.

India has overtaken the United States to become the world's second-largest market for 5G smartphones, following China.

To deepen international and diaspora ties, the Maharashtra government has established a new Department of Protocol, Foreign Direct Investment, Diaspora Affairs, and Outreach becoming the first state in India to do so. 

Nearly half of the world's real time digital transactions happen in India. In FY 2025, over 18,580 crore UPI payments worth ₹261 trillion were processed. 

Microsoft has picked India as the first country in Asia to roll out its Elevate for Educators program. Its an initiative to train two million teachers and extend AI skills to 200,000 schools by 2030. 

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